Bungled Voting Experience Leads To Legal Action

Janice Toothman is blind and mostly deaf. Yet she is still an American, and has a Constitutional right to vote.

So do the others who attempted to vote in the Primary election and had their ballots mishandled, as well as many members of the National Federation of the Blind. They're now involved in a lawsuit against the state election board.

Jessica Weber, attorney for Brown, Goldstein and Levy in Baltimore, represents those behind the lawsuit. She explains that Janice's inability to vote privately. effectively, and independently through traditional means infringes on her right to vote. She would be able to cast her vote through the use of an online absentee ballot which the election board has, but has not made available.

The online tool has not been made available due to, what is speculated to be, security reasons. The group is suing to make the online option available.

Janice Toothman is also seeking some compensation for her "horrific experience trying to vote" in a separate lawsuit.